I have an artist friend with ADHD and they have a really, really tough time with negative comments on her work. I'd love to hear how you handle nonconstructive criticism!
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Easy: The more you care about other peoples opinions about you, the sadder you'll be. Someone don't like you? I guess you're not missing out on that person then anyway!
I wish it were that easy for my friend. Trust me, for me it's that simple! I've tried getting her to not respond at all, to not engage with negative people, but she says she can't help but think about their comments all the time. I've even suggested maybe disabling comments, but she says she feels bad doing that. I've always had a healthy dose of confidence to me and try to make use of others' negativity by learning from it. I just don't know how to help her...
Sad to say, but I haven't found a better way than ignore, move on. There have been a few cases on the news in past months where different levels of rejection lead to different tragedies (killing the rejector, killing random people, killing oneself), and that is definitely not the direction I'd hope to see society go.
Absolutely! She can't seem tp ignore them though and will spend days affected by it. Unfortunately she has chosen a field where you will be receiving criticism, good and bad, all the time! She's been through some really heavy stuff and I'm just not sure she should be in an environment where judgement of her work is going to happen...
